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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Lawyers in society [computer file]: an overview  Author: Abel, Richard L Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Law | Sociology | Politics Publisher's Description: Among all those who encounter the law in the conduct of their lives or who consider it as a career, few have a solid understanding of the legal profession in America, and fewer still know anything about systems in other parts of the world. Lawyers in Society offers a concise comparative introduction . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Tortured confessions: prisons and public recantations in modern Iran  Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press,  1999 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Politics | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: The role of torture in recent Iranian politics is the subject of Ervand Abrahamian's important and disturbing book. Although Iran officially banned torture in the early twentieth century, Abrahamian provides documentation of its use under the Shahs and of the widespread utilization of torture and pu . . . [more] Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Khomeinism: essays on the Islamic Republic  Author: Abrahamian, Ervand 1940- Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: "Fanatic," "dogmatic," "fundamentalist" - these are the words most often used in the West to describe the Ayatollah Khomeini. The essays in this book challenge that view, arguing that Khomeini and his Islamic movement should be seen as a form of Third World political populism - a radical but pragmat . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Industrialization, family life, and class relations: Saint Chamond, 1815-1914  Author: Accampo, Elinor Ann Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: History | European History | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative study, Elinor Accampo explores the interrelationship between the structure of work and strategies of family formation in Saint Chamond, a French city that underwent intensive industrialization during the nineteenth century. Through a detailed analysis of fertility, mortality, mar . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The opening of the Apartheid mind: options for the new South Africa  Author: Adam, Heribert Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: African Studies | Politics | African History Publisher's Description: Refusing to be governed by what is fashionable or inoffensive, Heribert Adam and Kogila Moodley frankly address the passions and rationalities that drive politics in post-apartheid South Africa. They argue that the country's quest for democracy is widely misunderstood and that public opinion abroad . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The long peace: Ottoman Lebanon, 1861-1920  Author: Akarlı, Engin Deniz Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: History | Politics | Middle Eastern History | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Long notorious as one of the most turbulent areas of the world, Lebanon nevertheless experienced an interlude of peace between its civil war of 1860 and the beginning of the French Mandate in 1920. Engin Akarli examines the sociopolitical changes resulting from the negotiations and shifting alliance . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Nuptial arithmetic: Marsilio Ficino's commentary on the fatal number in Book VIII of Plato's Republic  Author: Allen, Michael J. B Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Medieval Studies | Renaissance History Publisher's Description: The latest of Michael Allen's distinguished studies of the Renaissance Neoplatonist, Marsilio Ficino (1433-1499), presents a difficult, fascinating text. Late in his career, Ficino wrote a commentary on the intractable passage in Book VIII of Plato's Republic that concerns the mysterious geometric o . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The wrestler's body: identity and ideology in north India  Author: Alter, Joseph S Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Anthropology | South Asia Publisher's Description: The Wrestler's Body tells the story of a way of life organized in terms of physical self-development. While Indian wrestlers are competitive athletes, they are also moral reformers whose conception of self and society is fundamentally somatic. Using the insights of anthropology, Joseph Alter writes . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Emigrants and society: Extremadura and America in the sixteenth century  Author: Altman, Ida Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: History | European History | United States History Publisher's Description: The opening of the New World to Spanish settlement had more than the limited impact on individuals and society which scholars have traditionally granted it. Many families and young single people left the neighboring cities of Cáceres and Trujillo in the Extremadura region of southwestern Spain for t . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Familia: migration and adaptation in Baja and Alta California, 1800-1975  Author: Alvarez, Robert R Published: University of California Press,  1987 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Demography | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Postcolonial Studies Publisher's Description: Anthropologists, historians, and sociologists will find here a striking challenge to accepted explanations of the northward movement of migrants from Mexico into the United States. Alvarez investigates the life histories of pioneer migrants and their offspring, finding a human dimension to migration . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Frontiers of supercomputing II: a national reassessment  Author: Ames, Karyn R Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Science | Computer Science | Physics Publisher's Description: This uniquely comprehensive book brings together the vast amount of technical, economic, and political information and the analyses of supercomputing that have hitherto been buried in the frequently inaccessible "gray literature." Seventy-nine distinguished participants in the second Frontiers of Su . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Aristotle on the goals and exactness of ethics  Author: Anagnostopoulos, Georgios Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Classical Philosophy Publisher's Description: Philosophers as diverse as Socrates, Plato, Spinoza, and Rawls have sometimes argued that ethics can be an exact discipline whose propositions can match the exactness we associate with mathematics. Yet for Aristotle, knowledge of ethical matters is essentially inexact, and his perceptive criticisms . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The limits of realism: Chinese fiction in the revolutionary period  Author: Anderson, Marston Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: Literature | Asian Literature Publisher's Description: Chinese intellectuals of the early twentieth century were attracted to realism primarily as a tool for social regeneration. Realism encouraged writers to adopt the stance of the independent cultural critic and drew into the compass of serious literature the disenfranchised "others" of Chinese societ . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Painters and politics in the People's Republic of China, 1949-1979  Author: Andrews, Julia Frances Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Art | Art History | Asian Studies | China Publisher's Description: Julia Andrews's extraordinary study of art, artists, and artistic policy during the first three decades of the People's Republic of China makes a major contribution to our understanding of modern China. From 1949 to 1979 the Chinese government controlled the lives and work of the country's artists - . . . [more] Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: History and tropology: the rise and fall of metaphor  Author: Ankersmit, F. R Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: "The chief business of twentieth-century philosophy is to reckon with twentieth-century history," claimed Collingwood. In this remarkable collection of essays, many published for the first time, Frank Ankersmit demonstrates the prescience of that remark and goes a long way toward meeting its challen . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A nation of provincials: the German idea of Heimat  Author: Applegate, Celia Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: History | European History | German Studies Publisher's Description: At the center of this pioneering work in modern European history is the German word Heimat - the homeland, the local place. Translations barely penetrate the meaning of the word, which has provided the emotional and ideological common ground for a variety of associations and individuals devoted to t . . . [more] Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Mass mediations: new approaches to popular culture in the Middle East and beyond  Author: Armbrust, Walter Published: University of California Press,  2000 Subjects: Middle Eastern Studies | Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Media Studies | Music | Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: Offering a stimulating diversity of perspectives, this collection examines how popular culture through mass media defines the scale and character of social interaction in the Middle East. The contributors approach popular culture broadly, with an interest in how it creates new scales of communicatio . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The imaginary puritan: literature, intellectual labor, and the origins of personal life  Author: Armstrong, Nancy Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | American Literature Publisher's Description: Nancy Armstrong and Leonard Tennenhouse challenge traditional accounts of the origins of modern Anglo-American culture by focusing on the emergence of print culture in England and the North American colonies. They postulate a modern middle class that consisted of authors and intellectuals who litera . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A fable of modern art  Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Theory | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton's masterly analysis of modern art grows out of a consideration of Balzac's brilliant and little known 'philosophic' story The Unknown Masterpiece in which the concerns of Cézanne, Picasso, and the abstract expressionists are strikingly prefigured. Balzac's fable is discussed not only wit . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A critical study of Philip Guston  Author: Ashton, Dore Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: Art | Art History | Art Criticism | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Dore Ashton has updated the bibliography and added a new concluding chapter to her classic study of the paintings and drawings of Philip Guston, the only study of his work completely authorized by the artist.Philip Guston (1913-1980) was one of the most independent of the painters whose work was loo . . . [more] Similar Items

21.	Add to Bookbag	Title: American urban architecture: catalysts in the design of cities  Author: Attoe, Wayne Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Architecture | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: Conceiving of urban design in terms of architectural actions and reactions, Attoe and Logan propose a theory of "catalytic architecture" better suited to specifically American circumstances than the largely European models developed in the last thirty years for the remaking of cities.After exploring . . . [more] Similar Items
22.	Add to Bookbag	Title: J.M. Coetzee: South Africa and the politics of writing  Author: Attwell, David Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Literature | African Studies | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: David Attwell defends the literary and political integrity of South African novelist J.M. Coetzee by arguing that Coetzee has absorbed the textual turn of postmodern culture while still addressing the ethical tensions of the South African crisis. As a form of "situational metafiction," Coetzee's wri . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Regulatory encounters: multinational corporations and American adversarial legalism  Author: Axelrad, Lee 1963- Published: University of California Press,  2000 Subjects: Politics | Public Policy | Law Publisher's Description: Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinationa . . . [more] Similar Items

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1.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Absent lord: ascetics and kings in a Jain ritual culture  Author: Babb, Lawrence A Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Religion | Asian Studies | Anthropology Publisher's Description: What does it mean to worship beings that one believes are completely indifferent to, and entirely beyond the reach of, any form of worship whatsoever? How would such a relationship with sacred beings affect the religious life of a community? Using these questions as his point of departure, Lawrence . . . [more] Similar Items
2.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Observations in Lower California  Author: Baegert, Jacob 1717-1772 Published: University of California Press,  1979 Subjects: History | United States History | California and the West | Californian and Western History Similar Items
3.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Society and politics in Snorri Sturluson's Heimskringla  Author: Bagge, Sverre 1942- Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | Medieval History | Medieval Studies | Sociology Publisher's Description: Heimskringla is the best known and most important book of Old Norse kings' sagas. A medieval masterpiece, the collection was written by Snorri Sturluson in the first half of the thirteenth century. The sagas have been studied primarily as literary sources and chronicles of specific historical events . . . [more] Similar Items
4.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The short, swift time of gods on earth: the Hohokam chronicles  Author: Bahr, Donald M Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | Folklore and Mythology Publisher's Description: In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English . . . [more] Similar Items
5.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Coronations: medieval and early modern monarchic ritual  Author: Bak, János M Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: Fascination with royal pomp and circumstance is as old as kingship itself. The authors of Coronations examine royal ceremonies from the ninth to the sixteenth century, and find the very essence of the monarchical state in its public presentation of itself. This book is an enlightened response to the . . . [more] Similar Items
6.	Add to Bookbag	Title: And now my soul is hardened: abandoned children in Soviet Russia, 1918-1930  Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Warfare, epidemics, and famine left millions of Soviet children homeless during the 1920s. Many became beggars, prostitutes, and thieves, and were denizens of both secluded underworld haunts and bustling train stations. Alan Ball's study of these abandoned children examines their lives and the strat . . . [more] Similar Items
7.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Russia's last capitalists: the Nepmen, 1921-1929  Author: Ball, Alan M Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: In 1921 Lenin surprised foreign observers and many in his own Party, by calling for the legalization of private trade and manufacturing. Within a matter of months, this New Economic Policy (NEP) spawned many thousands of private entrepreneurs, dubbed Nepmen. After delineating this political backgrou . . . [more] Similar Items
8.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Pseudo-Hecataeus, On the Jews: legitimizing the Jewish diaspora  Author: Bar-Kochva, Bezalel Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Jewish Studies | History | Ancient History | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: Debate over the authenticity of "On the Jews" has persisted for nearly 1,900 years. Bezalel Bar-Kochva attempts to overcome this stalemate in his finely detailed and convincingly argued study that proves the forgery of the book and suggests not only a source for the text, but also a social, politica . . . [more] Similar Items
9.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The making of a social disease;: tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France  Author: Barnes, David S Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: History | History and Philosophy of Science | Medicine | European History Publisher's Description: In this first English-language study of popular and scientific responses to tuberculosis in nineteenth-century France, David Barnes provides a much-needed historical perspective on a disease that is making an alarming comeback in the United States and Europe. Barnes argues that French perceptions of . . . [more] Similar Items
10.	Add to Bookbag	Title: State and intellectual in imperial Japan: the public man in crisis  Author: Barshay, Andrew E Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: History | Asian History | Japan | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: In this superbly written and eminently readable narrative, Andrew E. Barshay presents the contrasting lives of Nanbara Shigeru (1889-1974) and Hasegawa Nyoze-kan (1875-1969), illuminating the complex predicament of modern Japanese intellectuals and their relation to state and society.Following the M . . . [more] Similar Items
11.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Incidents  Author: Barthes, Roland Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Literature | Autobiography | Literary Theory and Criticism | GayLesbian and Bisexual Studies Publisher's Description: In 1979, just after having written skeptically on the question of whether a journal was worth keeping "with a view to publication," Roland Barthes began to keep an intimate journal called "Soirées de Paris" in which he gave direct notation to his gay desire in its various states of excitation, panic . . . [more] Similar Items
12.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Monarchs and ministers: the Grand Council in Mid-Chʿing China, 1723-1820  Author: Bartlett, Beatrice S Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: Asian Studies | China | History | Asian History | Politics Publisher's Description: This book describes the transformation of Ch'ing governance from monarchical rule to ministerial administration, presenting a wholly new account of the Grand Council's founding and rise to dominance. This period has been viewed as an era of intensified government centralization and increasing autocr . . . [more] Similar Items
13.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Rhetorics of self-making  Author: Battaglia, Debbora Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Anthropology | Cultural Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Departing from an essentialist concept of the self, this highly original volume advances the cross-cultural study of selfhood with three contributions to the literature: First, it approaches the self as an ideological process, arguing that selfhood is culturally situated and emergent in social pract . . . [more] Similar Items
14.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Hypochondria: woeful imaginatings  Author: Baur, Susan Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: Medicine | Science Publisher's Description: Writing with grace, humor, and an expert's eye for revealing detail, Susan Baur illuminates the processes by which hypochondriacs come to adopt and maintain illness as a way of life. Similar Items
15.	Add to Bookbag	Title: ABC of influence: Ezra Pound and the remaking of American poetic tradition  Author: Beach, Christopher Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Poetry | American Studies | American Literature Publisher's Description: In this first full-length study of Pound's influence on American poetry after World War II, Beach argues that Pound's experimental mode created a new tradition of poetic writing in America. Often neglected by academic critics and excluded from the "canon" of American poetic writing, Charles Olson, R . . . [more] Similar Items
16.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The development of Attic black-figure  Author: Beazley, J. D. (John Davidson) 1885-1970 Published: University of California Press,  1986 Subjects: Classics | Art and Architecture Publisher's Description: The eight lectures that comprise this edition were first delivered by John Davidson Beazley in 1949. They were published in 1951 and soon became a of classical study of ancient Greek vases. This revised edition includes many additional illustrations. Similar Items
17.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Healing the infertile family: strengthening your relationship in the search for parenthood  Author: Becker, Gaylene Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Anthropology | Medical Anthropology | Psychology Publisher's Description: Unlike most infertility books that focus on medical treatment, Healing the Infertile Family examines the social and emotional problems experienced by couples confronting infertility and suggests how they can be alleviated. In this updated edition, Gay Becker discusses her most recent study of couple . . . [more] Similar Items
18.	Add to Bookbag	Title: What's the matter with liberalism?  Author: Beiner, Ronald 1953- Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Politics | Sociology | Political Theory | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: In the wake of the revolutions of 1989, the ongoing political turmoil in the Soviet Union, and the democratization of most of Latin America, what is the task of political theorists?Ronald Beiner's invigorating critique of liberal theory and liberal practices takes on the shibboleths of modern Wester . . . [more] Similar Items
19.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The dispersion of Egyptian Jewry: culture, politics, and the formation of a modern diaspora  Author: Beinin, Joel 1948- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Religion | Judaism | Middle Eastern Studies | Jewish Studies Publisher's Description: In this provocative and wide-ranging history, Joel Beinin examines fundamental questions of ethnic identity by focusing on the Egyptian Jewish community since 1948. A complex and heterogeneous people, Egyptian Jews have become even more diverse as their diaspora continues to the present day. Central . . . [more] Similar Items
20.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Epic traditions in the contemporary world: the poetics of community  Author: Beissinger, Margaret H Published: University of California Press,  1999 Subjects: Literature | Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: The epic tradition has been part of many different cultures throughout human history. This noteworthy collection of essays provides a comparative reassessment of epic and its role in the ancient, medieval, and modern worlds, as it explores the variety of contemporary approaches to the epic genre. Em . . . [more] Similar Items

21.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Judeo-Spanish ballads from New York  Author: Benardete, M. J. (Maír José) 1895- Published: University of California Press,  1982 Subjects: Anthropology | American Literature | Jewish Studies Similar Items
22.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A theory of language and mind  Author: Bencivenga, Ermanno 1950- Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Philosophy Publisher's Description: In his most recent book, Ermanno Bencivenga offers a stylistically and conceptually exciting investigation of the nature of language, mind, and personhood and the many ways the three connect. Bencivenga, one of the most iconoclastic voices to emerge in contemporary American philosophy, contests the . . . [more] Similar Items
23.	Add to Bookbag	Title: My Kantian ways  Author: Bencivenga, Ermanno 1950- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Social and Political Thought Publisher's Description: In My Kantian Ways , Ermanno Bencivenga, one of the most creative and iconoclastic practitioners of American philosophy, sets out to explore Kant's legacy for contemporary thought. Seeking to extricate the German philosopher's work from the stranglehold of the prevailing analytic tradition, he prese . . . [more] Similar Items
24.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Reflections of an American composer  Author: Berger, Arthur 1912- Published: University of California Press,  2002 Subjects: Music | American Music | Classical Music | Contemporary Music | Composers | Musicology Publisher's Description: In this engrossing collection of essays, distinguished composer, theorist, journalist, and educator Arthur Berger invites us into the vibrant and ever-changing American music scene that has been his home for most of the twentieth century. Witty, urbane, and always entertaining, Berger describes the . . . [more] Similar Items
25.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Authors of their own lives: intellectual autobiographies  Author: Berger, Bennett M Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: Sociology | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: All students and scholars are curious about the human faces behind the impersonal rhetoric of academic disciplines. Here twenty of America's most prominent sociologists recount the intellectual and biographical events that shaped their careers. Family history, ethnicity, fear, private animosities, e . . . [more] Similar Items
26.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Women, culture, and politics in Latin America  Author: Bergmann, Emilie L 1949- Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Latin American Studies | Women's Studies | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: The result of a collaboration among eight women scholars, this collection examines the history of women's participation in literary, journalistic, educational, and political activity in Latin American history, with special attention to the first half of this century. Similar Items
27.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Big business and industrial conflict in nineteenth-century France: a social history of the Parisian Gas Company  Author: Berlanstein, Lenard R Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: History | European History | French Studies | Economics and Business | Technology and Society Publisher's Description: Founded in 1855, the Parisian Gas Company (PGC) quickly developed into one of France's greatest industrial enterprises, an exemplar of the new industrial capitalism that was beginning to transform the French economy. The PGC supplied at least half the coal gas consumed in France through the 1870s an . . . [more] Similar Items
28.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Sonia's daughters: prostitutes and their regulation in imperial Russia  Author: Bernstein, Laurie Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: History | European History | European Studies | Women's Studies | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: Prostitution in Imperial Russia was so tenacious that it survived not only the tsarist regime's most tumultuous years but the Bolshevik revolution itself. Laurie Bernstein's comprehensive study is the first to look at how the state and society responded to the issue of prostitution - the attitudes o . . . [more] Similar Items
29.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Foregone conclusions: against apocalyptic history  Author: Bernstein, Michael André 1947- Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Philosophy | Jewish Studies | Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism Publisher's Description: Michael André Bernstein's passionate denunciation of apocalyptic thinking provides a moral, philosophical, and literary challenge to the way most of us make sense of our worlds. In our search for coherence, Bernstein argues, we tend to see our lives as moving toward a predetermined fate. This "fores . . . [more] Similar Items
30.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Insider/outsider: American Jews and multiculturalism  Author: Biale, David 1949- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: Jewish Studies | American Studies | Popular Culture | Judaism | Gender Studies | United States History | Literature Publisher's Description: Twelve distinguished historians, political theorists, and literary critics present new perspectives on multiculturalism in this important collection. Central to the essays (all but one is appearing in print for the first time) is the question of how the Jewish experience can challenge the convention . . . [more] Similar Items
31.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The other economy: pastoral husbandry on a medieval estate  Author: Biddick, Kathleen Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: While the cereal agriculture of medieval Europe has been studied exhaustively, the pastoral resources and livestock husbandry of medieval estates have been seriously neglected. Kathleen Biddick's examination of one estate, Peterborough Abbey, during several decades before and after 1100 and the firs . . . [more] Similar Items
32.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Writing signs: the Fatimid public text  Author: Bierman, Irene A Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: Art | Middle Eastern Studies | Middle Eastern History | Literature Publisher's Description: Irene Bierman explores the complex relationship between alphabet and language as well as the ways the two elements are socially defined by time and place. She focuses her exploration on the Eastern Mediterranean in the sixth through twelfth centuries, notably Cairo's Fatimid dynasty of 969-1171. Exa . . . [more] Similar Items
33.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The fabrication of labor: Germany and Britain, 1640-1914  Author: Biernacki, Richard 1956- Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: History | Sociology | Labor Studies | European History Publisher's Description: This monumental study demonstrates the power of culture to define the meaning of labor. Drawing on massive archival evidence from Britain and Germany, as well as historical evidence from France and Italy, The Fabrication of Labor shows how the very nature of labor as a commodity differed fundamental . . . [more] Similar Items
34.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Inside the drama-house: Rama stories and shadow puppets in South India  Author: Blackburn, Stuart H Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Anthropology | Asian Studies | South Asia | Cinema and Performance Arts | Hinduism Publisher's Description: Stuart Blackburn takes the reader inside a little-known form of shadow puppetry in this captivating work about performing the Tamil version of the Ramayana epic. Blackburn describes the skill and physical stamina of the puppeteers in Kerala state in South India as they perform all night for as many . . . [more] Similar Items
35.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Family size and achievement  Author: Blake, Judith Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Sociology | Demography Publisher's Description: The children born since the end of the postwar baby boom are the first in American history to come primarily from small families - families of three or fewer children. Judith Blake calls this momentous change the sibsize revolution, and this book focuses on the cognitive and educational consequences . . . [more] Similar Items
36.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Misogyny, misandry, and misanthropy  Author: Bloch, R. Howard Published: University of California Press,  1989 Subjects: Literature | English Literature Publisher's Description: These essays, originally comprising an issue of Representations , explore the relation between gender, eroticism, and violence through close analysis of a range of both high and popular cultural forms, from R. Howard Bloch on medieval theology to Carol Clover on contemporary slasher films. Does miso . . . [more] Similar Items
37.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Early Gothic Saint-Denis: restorations and survivals  Author: Blum, Pamela Z Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: Art | Architectural History | Art History | Medieval Studies | Archaeology Publisher's Description: quality. Indeed, the well-preserved sculptural passages provide a key to the Early Gothic style as well as revealing the distinct imprints of three artists and their influences on each other. Blum's penetrating analyses of the restorative techniques and materials are accompanied by telling photograp . . . [more] Similar Items
38.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Between feminism and labor: the significance of the comparable worth movement  Author: Blum, Linda M Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Sociology | Gender Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: "Equal pay for equal work" has long been a forceful slogan of the feminist and labor movements. Now, however, as the American economy depends more and more on "women's work," it has become clear that this objective does not benefit the majority of women, who are employed in sex-segregated jobs. In B . . . [more] Similar Items
39.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Environment and experience: settlement culture in nineteenth-century Oregon  Author: Boag, Peter G Published: University of California Press,  1992 Subjects: History | United States History | Californian and Western History | Environmental Studies Publisher's Description: The pioneer battling with a hostile environment - whether it be arid land, drought, dust storms, dense forests, or harsh winters - is a staple of western American history. In this innovative, multi-disciplinary work, Peter Boag takes issue with the image of the settler against the frontier, arguing . . . [more] Similar Items
40.	Add to Bookbag	Title: May her likes be multiplied: biography and gender politics in Egypt  Author: Booth, Marilyn Published: University of California Press,  2001 Subjects: History | Middle Eastern History | Women's Studies | Literature | Middle Eastern Studies Publisher's Description: Marilyn Booth's elegantly conceived study reveals the Arabic tradition of life-writing in an entirely new light. Though biography had long been male-authored, in the late nineteenth century short sketches by and about women began to appear in biographical dictionaries and women's journals. By 1940, . . . [more] Similar Items

41.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Precious nonsense: the Gettysburg address, Ben Jonson's epitaphs on his children, and Twelfth night  Author: Booth, Stephen Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: Literature Publisher's Description: Why do we value literature so? Many would say for the experience it brings us. But what is it about that experience that makes us treasure certain writings above others? Stephen Booth suggests that the greatest appeal of our most valued works may be that they are, in one way or another, nonsensical. . . . [more] Similar Items
42.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A usable past: essays in European cultural history  Author: Bouwsma, William James 1923- Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: History | European History Publisher's Description: The essays assembled here represent forty years of reflection about the European cultural past by an eminent historian. The volume concentrates on the Renaissance and Reformation, while providing a lens through which to view problems of perennial interest. A Usable Past is a book of unusual scope, t . . . [more] Similar Items
43.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Horace and the gift economy of patronage  Author: Bowditch, Phebe Lowell 1961- Published: University of California Press,  2001 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Poetry | Cultural Anthropology Publisher's Description: This innovative study explores selected odes and epistles by the late-first-century poet Horace in light of modern anthropological and literary theory. Phebe Lowell Bowditch looks in particular at how the relationship between Horace and his patron Maecenas is reflected in these poems' themes and rhe . . . [more] Similar Items
44.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Fiction as history: Nero to Julian  Author: Bowersock, G. W. (Glen Warren) 1936- Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Classics | Literature | European History | Classical Religions | Christianity | Ancient History Publisher's Description: Using pagan fiction produced in Greek and Latin during the early Christian era, G. W. Bowersock investigates the complex relationship between "historical" and "fictional" truths. This relationship preoccupied writers of the second century, a time when apparent fictions about both past and present we . . . [more] Similar Items
45.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A radical Jew: Paul and the politics of identity  Author: Boyarin, Daniel Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Religion | Judaism | Christianity | Gender Studies | Literature | Anthropology Publisher's Description: Daniel Boyarin turns to the Epistles of Paul as the spiritual autobiography of a first-century Jewish cultural critic. What led Paul - in his dramatic conversion to Christianity - to such a radical critique of Jewish culture?Paul's famous formulation, "There is neither Jew nor Greek, no male and fem . . . [more] Similar Items
46.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The courtier and the King: Ruy Gómez de Silva, Philip II, and the court of Spain  Author: Boyden, James M 1954- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: History | European History | Autobiographies and Biographies Publisher's Description: Ruy Gómez de Silva, or the prince of Eboli, was one of the central figures at the court of Spain in the sixteenth century. Thanks to his oily affability, social grace, and an uncanny knack for anticipating and catering to the desires of his prince, he rose from obscurity to become the favorite and c . . . [more] Similar Items
47.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Loyola's acts: the rhetoric of the self  Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Literature | Renaissance History | Christianity | Rhetoric | Art History | Medieval History Publisher's Description: This revisionist view of Ignatius Loyola argues that his "autobiography" - until now taken to be a literal, documentary account - is in reality a work of rhetoric, a moral narrative that exploits the techniques of fiction. In radically reinterpreting this canonical text, our main source of informati . . . [more] Similar Items
48.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Petrarch's genius: pentimento and prophecy  Author: Boyle, Marjorie O'Rourke 1943- Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Literature | European Literature | European History | Religion Publisher's Description: Marjorie Boyle is the first theologian to write about Petrarch the poet as theologian. With her extraordinarily broad and deep knowledge of the theological, historical, and literary contexts of her subject, she presents an entirely original and revisionary account of Petrarch's literary career.Petra . . . [more] Similar Items
49.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The key to Newton's dynamics: the Kepler problem and the Principia: containing an English translation of sections 1, 2, and 3 of book one from the first (1687) edition of Newton's Mathematical principles of natural philosophy  Author: Brackenridge, J. Bruce 1927- Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Science | Physics | History and Philosophy of Science Publisher's Description: While much has been written on the ramifications of Newton's dynamics, until now the details of Newton's solution were available only to the physics expert. The Key to Newton's Dynamics clearly explains the surprisingly simple analytical structure that underlies the determination of the force necess . . . [more] Similar Items
50.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Constructive dissonance: Arnold Schoenberg and the transformations of twentieth-century culture  Author: Brand, Juliane Published: University of California Press,  1997 Subjects: Music | Musicology | Composers | Intellectual History | Art History Publisher's Description: Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) is a pivotal figure of musical modernism. The "father of serialism" has influenced nearly every major composer of this century, and the idea of Schoenberg, now wild-eyed radical, now embattled moralist, now lonely prophet, is woven into the mythos of modern art. What is . . . [more] Similar Items
51.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A nationality of her own: women, marriage, and the law of citizenship  Author: Bredbenner, Candice Lewis 1955- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: History | United States History | Women's Studies | Law | Public Policy Publisher's Description: In 1907, the federal government declared that any American woman marrying a foreigner had to assume the nationality of her husband, and thereby denationalized thousands of American women. This highly original study follows the dramatic variations in women's nationality rights, citizenship law, and i . . . [more] Similar Items
52.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Just doctoring: medical ethics in the liberal state  Author: Brennan, Troyen A Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Philosophy | Ethics | Medicine Publisher's Description: Just Doctoring draws the doctor-patient relationship out of the consulting room and into the middle of the legal and political arenas where it more and more frequently appears. Traditionally, medical ethics has focused on the isolated relationship of physician to patient in a setting that has left t . . . [more] Similar Items
53.	Add to Bookbag	Title: A new world in a small place: church and religion in the Diocese of Rieti, 1188-1378  Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: History | Religion | Christianity | European History | Medieval History | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Distinguished historian Robert Brentano provides an entirely new perspective on the character of the church, religion, and society in the medieval Italian diocese of Rieti from 1188 to 1378. Combing through a cache of previously ignored documents stored in a tower of the cathedral, he uses wills, li . . . [more] Similar Items
54.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Rome before Avignon: a social history of thirteenth-century Rome  Author: Brentano, Robert 1926- Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: History | European History | Medieval History | Religion | Medieval Studies Publisher's Description: Robert Brentano evokes papal Rome in all its paradox and complicated brilliance. From a detailed re-creation of the physical "town" with its series of brick campanili and green and purple mosaic floors, to the intrigues of the great families, like the Orsini and Colonna, the reader is guided through . . . [more] Similar Items
55.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Traveling in Mark Twain  Author: Bridgman, Richard Published: University of California Press,  1987 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | American Literature Similar Items
56.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Grateful prey: Rock Cree human-animal relationships  Author: Brightman, Robert Alain 1950- Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: Anthropology | Anthropology | United States History | Religion Publisher's Description: The interaction between religious beliefs and hunting practices among the Asiniskawidiniwak or Rock Crees of northern Manitoba is the focus of Robert Brightman's detailed study. This foraging society, he says, bases aspects of its hunting and trapping largely on what we call "religious" conceptions. . . . [more] Similar Items
57.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Unequal alliance: the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the Philippines  Author: Broad, Robin Published: University of California Press,  1988 Subjects: Politics | Southeast Asia | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: In this seminal work, U.S. development specialist Robin Broad chronicles the Philippine experiment with the structural adjustment model of development espoused by the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund. Similar Items
58.	Add to Bookbag	Title: High anxieties: cultural studies in addiction  Author: Brodie, Janet Farrell Published: University of California Press,  2002 Subjects: Literature | Media Studies | Gender Studies | Cognitive Science | Social and Political Thought | Art | Sociology Publisher's Description: High Anxieties explores the history and ideological ramifications of the modern concept of addiction. Little more than a century old, the notions of "addict" as an identity and "addiction" as a disease of the will form part of the story of modernity. What is addiction? This collection of essays illu . . . [more] Similar Items
59.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Rethinking the American race problem  Author: Brooks, Roy L. (Roy Lavon) 1950- Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: American Studies | Law | Politics | Ethnic Studies Publisher's Description: If the conservative view of the American race problem is frightening, the traditional liberal view seems impotent. Analyzing the race problem from neither right nor left, Brooks sheds a new and clarifying light on America's longest running social and moral dilemma.This incisive book provides a bold . . . [more] Similar Items
60.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The Russian city between tradition and modernity, 1850-1900  Author: Brower, Daniel R Published: University of California Press,  1990 Subjects: History | European History | Russian and Eastern European Studies | Urban Studies Publisher's Description: The Russian City Between Tradition and Modernity provides a comprehensive history of urban development in European Russia during the last half of the nineteenth century. Using both statistical perspectives on urbanization and cultural representations of the city, Brower constructs a synthetic view o . . . [more] Similar Items

61.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Oil and revolution in Mexico  Author: Brown, Jonathan C. (Jonathan Charles) 1942- Published: University of California Press,  1993 Subjects: History | Latin American History | Latin American Studies | Economics and Business Publisher's Description: Anyone contemplating the consequences of foreign investment in Latin America will profit from reading this book. As Jonathan Brown shows, the dynamic growth of the Mexican oil industry resulted from both the domination of foreign capital and Mexico's own economic restructuring, conditions similar to . . . [more] Similar Items
62.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The unity of the common law: studies in Hegelian jurisprudence  Author: Brudner, Alan Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Philosophy | Law | Social and Political Thought | Political Theory Publisher's Description: Countering the influential view of Critical Legal Studies that law is an incoherent mixture of conflicting political ideologies, this book forges a new paradigm for understanding the common law as being unified and systematic. Alan Brudner applies Hegel's legal and moral philosophy to fashion a comp . . . [more] Similar Items
63.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The origins of modernism in Russian architecture  Author: Brumfield, William Craft 1944- Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Architecture | Architectural History | Russian and Eastern European Studies Publisher's Description: The dramatic transformation of Russian architecture from the 1880s to the 1917 revolution reflected the profound changes in Russian society as it entered the modern industrial age. William Craft Brumfield examines the extraordinary diversity of architectural styles in this period and traces the sear . . . [more] Similar Items
64.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Roberto Rossellini  Author: Brunette, Peter Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts Publisher's Description: This is the first full-length study in any language of the most significant film director of Italian Neorealism. Peter Brunette combines close analyses of Roberto Rossellini's formal and narrative style with a thorough account of his position in the political and cultural landscape of postwar Italy. . . . [more] Similar Items
65.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Immigration and the political economy of home: West Indian Brooklyn and American Indian Minneapolis, 1945-1992  Author: Buff, Rachel 1961- Published: University of California Press,  2001 Subjects: Ethnic Studies | American Studies | Native American Studies | Native American Ethnicity | United States History Publisher's Description: Rachel Buff's innovative study of festivals in two American communities launches a substantive inquiry into the nature of citizenship, race, and social power. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork as well as archival research, Buff compares American Indian powwows in Minneapolis with the West Indian Ame . . . [more] Similar Items
66.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Images and ideologies: self-definition in the Hellenistic world  Author: Bulloch, A. W Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Classics | Philosophy | Classical Philosophy | Ancient History | Art History Publisher's Description: This volume captures the individuality, the national and personal identity, the cultural exchange, and the self-consciousness that have long been sensed as peculiarly potent in the Hellenistic world. The fields of history, literature, art, philosophy, and religion are each presented using the format . . . [more] Similar Items
67.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Fighting women: anger and aggression in Aboriginal Australia  Author: Burbank, Victoria Katherine Published: University of California Press,  1994 Subjects: Anthropology | Women's Studies | Psychology Publisher's Description: Fighting is common among contemporary Aboriginal women in Mangrove, Australia - women fight with men and with other women. Victoria Burbank's depiction of these women offers a powerful new perspective that can be applied to domestic violence in Western settings.Noting that Aboriginal women not only . . . [more] Similar Items
68.	Add to Bookbag	Title: On human nature: a gathering while everything flows, 1967-1984  Author: Burke, Kenneth 1897- Published: University of California Press,  2003 Subjects: Literature | Literary Theory and Criticism | Intellectual History | Rhetoric | Comparative Literature Publisher's Description: On Human Nature: A Gathering While Everything Flows brings together the late essays, autobiographical reflections, an interview, and a poem by the eminent literary theorist and cultural critic Kenneth Burke (1897-1993). Burke, author of Language as Symbolic Action, A Grammar of Motives, and Rhetoric . . . [more] Similar Items
69.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Lawyers, lawsuits, and legal rights: the battle over litigation in American society  Author: Burke, Thomas Frederick Published: University of California Press,  2002 Subjects: Politics | Law Publisher's Description: Lawsuits over coffee burns, playground injuries, even bad teaching: litigation "horror stories" create the impression that Americans are greedy, quarrelsome, and sue-happy. The truth, as this book makes clear, is quite different. What Thomas Burke describes in Lawyers, Lawsuits, and Legal Rights is . . . [more] Similar Items
70.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Jews in the notarial culture: Latinate wills in Mediterranean Spain, 1250-1350  Author: Burns, Robert Ignatius Published: University of California Press,  1996 Subjects: Medieval Studies | Judaism | Jewish Studies | European History | Law | Medieval History Publisher's Description: In the rapidly transforming world of thirteenth-century Mediterranean Spain, the all-purpose scribe and contract lawyer known as the notary became a familiar figure. Most legal transactions of the Roman Law Renaissance were framed in this functionary's notoriously hasty shorthand. Notarial archives, . . . [more] Similar Items
71.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The making of a heretic: gender, authority, and the Priscillianist controversy  Author: Burrus, Virginia Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Religion | Religion | Christianity | Classical Religions Publisher's Description: Silenced for 1,600 years, the "heretics" speak for themselves in this account of the Priscillianist controversy that began in fourth-century Spain. In a close examination of rediscovered texts, Virginia Burrus provides an unusual opportunity to explore heresy from the point of view of the followers . . . [more] Similar Items
72.	Add to Bookbag	Title: At the heart of the Empire: Indians and the colonial encounter in late-Victorian Britain  Author: Burton, Antoinette M 1961- Published: University of California Press,  1998 Subjects: History | Women's Studies | Autobiographies and Biographies | South Asia | Victorian History | Travel | European History | Asian History Publisher's Description: Antoinette Burton focuses on the experiences of three Victorian travelers in Britain to illustrate how "Englishness" was made and remade in relation to imperialism. The accounts left by these three sojourners - all prominent, educated Indians - represent complex, critical ethnographies of "native" m . . . [more] Similar Items
73.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Theocritus's urban mimes: mobility, gender, and patronage  Author: Burton, Joan B 1951- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Classics | Classical Literature and Language | Women's Studies Publisher's Description: Drawing on current literary, cultural, and historical approaches, Joan Burton presents sophisticated new readings of Theocritus's urban mimes, which are among the most frequently cited evidence of Hellenistic cultural life, religion, magic, and aesthetics. Unlike Theocritus's bucolic poems, which fo . . . [more] Similar Items
74.	Add to Bookbag	Title: The black homelands of South Africa: the political and economic development of Bophuthatswana and KwaZulu  Author: Butler, Jeffrey Published: University of California Press,  1978 Subjects: African Studies | African History | Politics Similar Items
75.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Landscapes of resistance: the German films of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub  Author: Byg, Barton 1953- Published: University of California Press,  1995 Subjects: Cinema and Performance Arts | Film | German Studies | Intellectual History Publisher's Description: Fervently admired and frequently reviled, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet - who have lived and worked together for almost forty years - may well be the most uncompromising, not to say intransigent, filmmakers in the history of the medium. Their radical and deeply political films placed them as . . . [more] Similar Items
76.	Add to Bookbag	Title: Dryden in revolutionary England  Author: Bywaters, David A Published: University of California Press,  1991 Subjects: Literature | English Literature | European History Publisher's Description: In 1681, when he wrote Absalom and Achitophel , John Dryden was poet laureate and historiographer royal at the court of his patron Charles II, and the acknowledged champion of a successful political cause. Only a few years later, Dryden's conversion to Roman Catholicism, followed by James II's depos . . . [more] Similar Items

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